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Speaker 1: From the Daily Os.

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Speaker 2: I'm Lucy Tassel, I'm Billy fitz Simon's.

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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, the twenty fourth of September. Here's what's making

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Speaker 1: headlines this evening.

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Speaker 2: Prices rose by three percent in the year to August,

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Speaker 2: according to new monthly inflation figures from the Australian Bureau

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Speaker 2: of Statistics. The ABS said it is the highest inflation

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Speaker 2: rate since July twenty twenty four. However, the annual trimmed mean,

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Speaker 2: which is the rate of inflation once you remove extreme

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Speaker 2: price changes on either side, decreased from two point seven

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Speaker 2: percent to two point six percent. According to the ABS,

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Speaker 2: the biggest increases in prices over the year to August

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Speaker 2: were alcohol and tobacco, which was six percent, and housing,

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Speaker 2: which was four point five percent. Electricity prices fell by

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Speaker 2: six point three percent from July to August, but are

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Speaker 2: up twenty four point six percent over the year. The

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Speaker 2: ABS attributed this to state government power bill rebates in

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Speaker 2: place last year that have since finished. Federal rebates have

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Speaker 2: now partly kicked in, contributing to the monthly drop.

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Speaker 1: Optus has been fined one hundred million dollars by the

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Speaker 1: federal court for selling products to hundreds of vulnerable customers,

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Speaker 1: including people with mental disabilities, who could not afford them.

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Speaker 1: After the lawsuit was launched by the Australian Competition and

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Speaker 1: Consumer Commission or the a Triple C last year, Optus

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Speaker 1: admitted it had targeted vulnerable Australians and in some cases

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Speaker 1: had incentivized staff to complete these purchases through commission based rewards.

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Speaker 1: On Wednesday, Federal Court Justice John O'Sullivan said the company's

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Speaker 1: conduct was quote clearly unconscionable and can only be described

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Speaker 1: as appalling. Separately to this, the OPTA CEO Stephen Rue

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Speaker 1: fronted the media on Wednesday about an outage last week

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Speaker 1: that impacted customers calling Triple Zero, which has been linked

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Speaker 1: to four deaths. Rue said the outage was a quote

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Speaker 1: process issue that was a result of human error in

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Speaker 1: terms of the instructions provided.

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Speaker 2: A Florida court has found a man guilty of attempting

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Speaker 2: to assassinate the US President Donald Trump at a golf

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Speaker 2: course last year. Ryan Wesley Ruth camped out at one

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Speaker 2: of Trump's Florida golf courses with a loaded gun last September.

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Speaker 2: He was then spotted by a Secret Service agent who

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Speaker 2: opened fire Ruth fled the scene and was later arrested.

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Speaker 2: At trial, Ruth represented himself, telling the jury he didn't

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Speaker 2: intend to kill anyone and didn't pull the trigger. The

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Speaker 2: jury took around two hours to find him guilty on

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Speaker 2: all counts, including a charge of attempting to assassinate a

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Speaker 2: major presidential candidate, which Trump then was After the verdict,

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Speaker 2: Ruth attempted to self harm in the courtroom, but was

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Speaker 2: stopped by court staff. He will be sentenced in December

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Speaker 2: and faces up to life in prison. If this story

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Speaker 2: has raised issues for you, help is always available at lifeline.

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Speaker 2: On thirteen eleven fourteen.

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Speaker 1: And today's good News, an international team of scientists has

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Speaker 1: developed a way to make rice more nutrition while reducing

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Speaker 1: the amount of fertilizer needed to produce it. Rice is

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Speaker 1: possibly the world's most consumed food, forming most of the

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Speaker 1: daily diet of more than half of the entire population.

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Speaker 1: The production of rice has many negative impacts on the environment,

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Speaker 1: including consuming a lot of water and releasing methane, a

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Speaker 1: greenhouse gas, from the fields where it's grown. Now, researchers

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Speaker 1: say adding a tiny amount of the mineral selenium to

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Speaker 1: rice plants helps them absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,

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Speaker 1: allowing the plants to grow bigger and more nutritious. The

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Speaker 1: same process also meant the rice plants absorbed more nitrogen

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Speaker 1: from the soil, which led to them releasing less into

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Speaker 1: the atmosphere. Plus, because the plants were able to absorb

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Speaker 1: and use more of those nutrients, farmers can use less

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Speaker 1: fertilizer to achieve the same, if not better effects.

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Speaker 2: No one loves that story more than me because rice

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Speaker 2: is my favorite food in the entire world.

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Speaker 1: Plain rice.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I could eat it every single day until the

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Speaker 2: day I die. So I love that amazing.

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Speaker 1: It's so good to have you back on the podcasts

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Speaker 1: like that.

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Speaker 2: Is the latest from the Daily OS newsroom, not my

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Speaker 2: daily food habits, but the rest of the news that

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Speaker 2: we've provided. If you're looking for something else to listen to,

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Speaker 2: you can check out today's deep dive on the White

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Speaker 2: House has claims about paracetamol use during pregnancy.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive. Until then,

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Speaker 1: have a great evening. My name is Lily Maddon and

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Speaker 1: I'm a proud Arunda Bungelung Calcuttin woman from Gadighl Country.

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Speaker 2: The Daily oz acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on

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Speaker 2: the lands of the Gadighl people and pays respect to

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Speaker 2: all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island and nations.

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Speaker 1: We pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries,

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Speaker 1: both past and present.